Medical marijuana and marijuana legalization

RL Pacula, R Smart - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
State-level marijuana liberalization policies have been evolving for the past five decades,
and yet the overall scientific evidence of the impact of these policies is widely believed to be …

Impact evaluations of drug decriminalisation and legal regulation on drug use, health and social harms: a systematic review

AI Scheim, N Maghsoudi, Z Marshall, S Churchill… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To review the metrics and findings of studies evaluating effects of drug
decriminalisation or legal regulation on drug availability, use or related health and social …

Association between recreational marijuana legalization in the United States and changes in marijuana use and cannabis use disorder from 2008 to 2016

M Cerdá, C Mauro, A Hamilton, NS Levy… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Little is known about changes in marijuana use and cannabis use disorder
(CUD) after recreational marijuana legalization (RML). Objectives To examine the …

The effect of medical marijuana laws on marijuana-related attitude and perception among US adolescents and young adults

H Wen, JM Hockenberry, BG Druss - Prevention Science, 2019 - Springer
Marijuana liberalization policies are gaining momentum in the USA, coupled with limited
federal interference and growing dispensary industry. This evolving regulatory landscape …

Causal effects of cannabis legalization on parents, parenting, and children: A systematic review

S Wilson, SH Rhee - Preventive medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Medical and recreational cannabis legalization lead to increased cannabis use among
adults. There is concern that legalization has negative implications for minors via effects on …

Impacts of recreational cannabis legalization on use and harms: A narrative review of sex/gender differences

J Matheson, B Le Foll - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Legalization of cannabis use for non-medical (recreational) purposes is changing the global
cannabis landscape. As attitudes toward cannabis use become more positive and …

Assessing the impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use disorder and admissions to treatment in the United States

L Aletraris, BD Graves, JJ Ndung'u - Current addiction reports, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Policy implications from changes in recreational cannabis laws
(RCLs) have raised public health concerns. While numerous studies have examined the …

Trends and characteristics of cannabis-associated emergency department visits in the United States, 2006–2018

DR Roehler, BE Hoots, KM Holland, GT Baldwin… - Drug and alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Cannabis policies are rapidly changing in the United States, yet little is known
about how this has affected cannabis-associated emergency department (ED) visits …

Using wastewater‐based analysis to monitor the effects of legalized retail sales on cannabis consumption in Washington State, USA

DA Burgard, J Williams, D Westerman, R Rushing… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To perform a wastewater‐based analysis to explore the impact of newly legalized retail
cannabis sales on its use and to determine if this approach could estimate the size of the …

Marijuana legalization and youth

K Ladegard, C Thurstone, M Rylander - Pediatrics, 2020 - publications.aap.org
Various states have legalized marijuana for medical purposes and/or decriminalized
recreational marijuana use. These changes coincide with a decrease in perceived …